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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Shoreditch 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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66
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.

Table: Annual Report for Year 1927.

Annual Report for Year 1927.

Health Visitors' Districts.
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.Total.
No. of 1st visits to infants244273234323325284272,114
No. of re-visits to infants5175855614136886501,3584,772
No. of 1st visits to children aged 1 to 5 years (irrespective of whether visited previously as an infant)65129202185972141,2402,132
No. of re-visits to children aged 1 to 5 years9051,2998081,3191,2071,3281,5548,420
No. of 1st visits to expectant mothers466753469894215,619
No. of re-visits to expectant mothers348083614349140490
No. of futile visits104196591691502977141,689
No. of interviews in connection with work3602265504851234871,1363,367
*No. of 1st visits to cases of ophthalmia neonatorum8931883...49
*No. of re-visits to cases of ophthalmia neonatorum814212123...51
No. of 1st visits to cases of puerperal fever...3433...13
No. of re-visits to cases of puerperal fever...411............15
No. of 1st visits to cases of puerperal pyrexia2...831...14
No. of re-visits to cases of puerperal pyrexia1..................1
No. of Health Visitors' attendances at Clinics:
(a) Hoxton Market Institute273...32755...115
(b) Hoxton Hall Centre......164911...76
(c) Maternity Centre136168125145157111...84-
(d) Harbour Lights Centre524949......1...151
(e) School for Mothers Centre..................318318

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* These visits are also included above.